Eduard Mark Office of Air Force History U. S. Air Force
The United States Army Air Forces became an independent service, the United States Air Force, in 1947-the second year, supposedly, of "peace." In reality there had just begun a long conflict between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and the satellite states subject to it. In 1949 the United States and most of the non-Communist countries of Europe signed the North Atlantic Treaty. The United States Air Force, which had been only a token presence on the continent since the end of World War II, once more crossed the Atlantic in strength. The commitment of that service to...
The United States Army Air Forces became an independent service, the United States Air Force, in 1947-the second year, supposedly, of "peace." In real...
